Tank.



G. P. BASON.

TANK.

APPLIUATIQN FILED JULY 14, 1913.

1,103,470. Patented July 14,1914.

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GflilOIltGrlEy F. BASON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE F. BAsoN, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of the borough of Brooklyn, city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tanks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object the provision of a tank wherein refuse material may be treated and which has an interior lining of new and advantageous construction adapted to successfully resist the destructive effects of sulfuric acid or other acids, as well as of water or the like, or vapors. In accordance with this object, and others which will appear from the hereinafter description of the invention, there is provided as hereinafter more particularly set forth, a tank, or the like, whose outer surface may be made of metal or other appropriate material and which is strengthened and protected by an inner layer or lining formed of a series of relatively thin and narrow units, as bricks or blocks, made of plastic material of suitable nature, mold-- ed to shape, the said bricks or blocks being set edgewise one upon another and in a relation which causes them to break joints, each of said bricks or blocks having its angularly disposed edges formed with grooves or depressions of which those of each brick or block mate with the corre-V sponding ones of theadjacent bricks or blocks, forming circular or other suitably shaped openings which are filled` with concrete or other suitable plastic material by which the bricks or blocks are effectively locked together.

In the accompanying drawings which eX- einplify the preferred embodiment of the invention, and wherein like characters of reference denote like parts in the several views Figure 1 is a sectional view of a tank constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail view, partly broken away of one of the bricks or blocks employed in the formation of the inner lining of the tank, and Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

The tank may be of any suitable shape and size, and may be set horizontally or vertically as desired. It is herein exemplified as being circular in cross section and Specification of Letters Patent.

is a section on the line Patented July Mc, 1914.

Application led July 14, 1913. Serial No. 778,848.

set to stand vertically, and the invention will be described accordingly, but it will be understood that the terms hereinafter employed with this particular shape and arrangement in view are intended to be merely exemplary, and not restrictive.

The tank is formed of an outer lining or casing and an inner lining B and has at its upper end a charging opening C prof vided with a suitable closure o and at its lower end an outlet opening D provided with a conduit d and which conduit, in practice, preferably has a valve, or other suitable means (not shown) for controlling the discharge of the material from the tank. The bottom of the tank is of inverted approximately-conical shape with the conduit (Z arranged atthe smallest diameter thereof so as Vto direct'the material'to lsaid conduit and thereby facilitate its discharge.

rThe outer lining or casing is preferably made of sheet metal having outer reinforcing straps, a, at the junctions of the upper and lower edges of the body with the top and bottom respectively and like reinforcing straps a at the junction of the bottom with the conduit d. j The inner lining B is made up of a series of bricks or blocks 10 which are preferably of oblong shape and are set upon edge so as to be in edgewise engagement with each other both vertically and horizontally; and said bricks or blocks are also relatively so arranged that they break joints. Each has its angularly-disposed edges formed with grooves or depressions, marked 11 and 12 respectively. Each of these grooves or depressions is preferably of concave form but they may be of other approved shape, if preferred. They preferably terminate short of the inner and outer surfaces 13 and 14 of the bricks or blocks so as to leave bearing surfaces 15 and 16 on the edges of each brick or block for engagement with like surfaces of the adjacent bricks or blocks. These grooves or depressions receive concrete or other suitable plastic material which when set binds them tightly together, and it will be noted that when the lining is formed the horizontal rows of bricks will be bound together upon their confronting transverse edges by continuous binders of plastic material while the longitudinal edges of the bricks or blocks in the respective rows will be bound to each other by like'binding mal preferably of oblong shape and may be thin as compared with their length, and are Inadef yof suitable plastic material molded to shape.v For round tanks they maybe madeconcavoconvex and they form a smooth and resistant surface which may be inexpensively pro-V of maximum durability.

duced and Will be k Having novv described the is claimed is:4

'A tank or 'the like prende@ With; battemand top closures, vsaid closures havingrjef' spectively supply and discharge openings therei,n,`4 the sides, top andhottoin of the tank consisting Loan :outer lining or casing the said innerliiiing y u i series of acid resist-f s ing bricks or block s'wh'ich lareset in rows, j

and Van inner lining,A being composed of4 a those ofoiie row breaking joints, with those of the adjacent row, the' said bricks or blocks i which form the.. inner linings of the side andbottom closure havingy their llongitudi edges fQrmed with 'WlC-h met@ with the n/"alY and transverse greens ,of depressions 9921s *1,11* wie* ses be @eine for his @mls cada 5i addressing, fle# i Washington, D. 03% f investire what,

corresponding ones in the adjacent bricks or blocks, the bricks or blocks forming the Vinner lining for the top closure being simir larly constructed and arranged, and the bricks forming the lower row thereof having a groove or depression in the under side thereof Which mate with the grooves or depressions I formed in the upper edges of the bricks or blocks of upper row of the side lining, all

of saidgroovesv or depressions being constructed to receive an acid resisting binding materialfarranged i'n continuous liorizontal lines and in staggered longitudinal lines, `the ends oieach' longitudinal section of binding material securing themselves to the adjacent continuous line of binding material thereby forming ai net Work of binding material. se-

curely holding the bricksfor blocks together.'

In Witnessffwhereof I have hereunto Vset iny'hand atthe borough of Manhattan, city an'dfState of New York,y thislfthird day of n l JOHN J.. RANAGAN, Y, A. OCONNE LL.

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